Vitalik Buterin Unveils Ethereum 2030 Roadmap Toward Cryptographic World Computer

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has unveiled a long-term technical roadmap detailing Ethereum's transformation into a 'cryptographic world computer' by 2030. The architectural framework moves the network away from conventional blockchain execution toward zero-knowledge proofs, recursive STARKs, and distributed sampling. The upcoming Hegota hard fork, scheduled for 2027, is expected to serve as the final conventional upgrade, introducing EIP-7805 (FOCIL) for censorship resistance and EIP-8141 for Frame Transactions. Subsequent phases aim to deploy Lean Consensus to cut finality from roughly 16 minutes to 8 to 32 seconds, alongside protocol-wide quantum resistance by December 2029.